reporter: sounds like the connection is getting dropped. this code was recently
changed around a bit for 1.3 beta. we will re-issue the POST request sent over
a re-used connection if the connection closes and we haven't received any data
from the server. this is the same behavior as netscape 4.x. please test only
with mozilla 1.3 beta. the older versions of mozilla would resend the request
even if a newly created connection was closed.

I searched and couldn't find anything on this, but it's so bizarre I'm sure I
wasn't using the correct 'words' ('repost' didn't bring back anything, for example)
The connection is most certainly *not* going down, as I am continually using it
downloading other things and such. Perhaps Mozilla automatically *drops* the
connection after a set time period and retries? The timing is very repetitive -
per the log file I put up there, it's always 5 minutes and a few seconds - too
repetitive to say it's a dropped connection.

What I don't get is why you rePOST something without asking? I can't even go
forward or back in (what should be) my local cache to POSTed pages without
warnings popping up, yet Mozilla will *silently* rePOST stuff? Are you saying
this is a known bug, or this is behaviour Mozilla developers intended?

the OS of the client machine may also be dropping the connection. can you
capture a packet trace using ethereal (www.ethereal.com) or some other tool?
that will give us more information about what is going on.
the repost is by design, and it is required when posting over a keep-alive
connection. given the way TCP/IP works, you can't avoid the fact that you might
be writing to a connection that has just been closed by the server. you will
only discover that it is closed once you start to read from the connection.
since the server can close keep-alive connections at any time after the first
response, a useragent must retry the request on a new connection if it discovers
the connection closed without any respones to its subsequent request. this
implementation is very standard.
can you please provide more information about what version of mozilla you are
testing? thx!

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